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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Understatement
Aside
Catharsis
Aubade
2. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.
Mood
Lyric Poem
Climax
Comic Relief
3. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.
Assonance
Parallelism
Elision
Sonnet
4. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Structure
Voice
Parable
Caesura
5. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Cliche
Conceit
Figurative Language
Tone
6. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Blank Verse
Verbal Irony
Metonymy
7. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Understatement
Ballad
Voice
Parallelism
8. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Subject
Understatement
Persona
Internal Conflict
9. The time and place of a story or play.
Character
Ballad
Setting
Theme
10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Symbol
Situational Irony
Parody
Metaphor
11. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.
Caesura
3rd Person (Limited)
Synecdoche
Metaphor
12. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Parody
Syntax
Simile
Hyperbole
13. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Sestina
Anapest
Dialect
Quatrain
14. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.
Cliche
Tone
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Villanelle
15. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Octave
Quatrain
Subject
Sestina
16. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Theme
Irony
Solioquy
Stereotype
17. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Caesura
Reversal
Enjambment
Epic
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Conceit
Falling Meter
Theme
Parable
19. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Complication
Villanelle
Imagery
Situational Irony
20. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Tone
Conflict
Character
Analogy
21. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.
Elision
Hyperbole
Understatement
Epic
22. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Couplet
Iamb
23. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.
Characterization
Lyric Poem
Imagery
Fiction
24. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Iamb
Rhythm
Literal Language
Dialogue
25. The selection of words in a literary work.
Blank Verse
Myth
Trochee
Diction
26. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Literal Language
Oxymoron
Falling Meter
Subject
27. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Image
Persona
Catharsis
Nonfiction
28. The organizational form of a literary work.
Structure
Foot
Mood
Lyric Poem
29. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Subplot
Spondee
Figurative Language
Recognition
30. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Oxymoron
Stanza
Climax
Pyrrhic
31. Broken down acts.
Foreshadowing
Scenes
Parallelism
Point of View
32. A three-line stanza.
Tercet
Assonance
Author's Purpose
Irony
33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Convention
Point of View
Villanelle
Exposition
34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.
Elegy
Simile
Antagonist
Connotation
35. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Personification
Antagonist
Character
Quatrain
36. The main character of a literary work.
Irony
Exposition
Protagonist
Elision
37. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Alliteration
Literal Language
Repetition
Verbal Irony
38. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Tone
Protagonist
Falling Meter
Apostrophe
39. The series of events that make up a story or drama.
Plot
Anapest
Conceit
Verbal Irony
40. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Exposition
Folklore
Climax
Ode
41. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
Image
1st Person
Mood
42. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.
Personification
Alliteration
Persona
Flashback
43. A four line stanza in a poem.
Ode
Reversal
Quatrain
Blank Verse
44. The dictionary meaning of a word.
Antagonist
Denotation
Analogy
Narrator
45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Paradox
Voice
Enjambment
Ode
46. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Narrative Poem
Aside
Fiction
47. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Situational Irony
Analogy
Meter
Closed Form
48. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Elision
Oxymoron
Trochee
Closed Form
49. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.
Exposition
Personification
Recognition
Understatement
50. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.
Symbol
Stereotype
Act
Climax